Katica Locke

For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a teacher and an author. I had interests in music, art, photography, dinosaurs, and genetics, to name a few, but never as a profession. Mostly, my hobbies served as research for my stories. Now I'm an education assistant at an elementary school and a published author, so I'd say that's pretty close to achieving my childhood dreams.

Good first chapter. The narrator has a strong voice and the characters are interesting. The only criticism I have (and it's nit-picky little OCD thing, anyway) is the repeated use of "kind of". I counted 12 of them in this chapter. "Kind of" is a weak modifier, especially when used to vaguely describe something. "Kind of angry" isn't as precise as irritated, distracted, frustrated, annoyed, or peeved. That's just my opinion, though. I really enjoyed reading this and I look forward to the next chapter.

Hello! I just wanted to reintroduce myself since I only just rediscovered the site after a five year hiatus. I now go by my pen name, Katica Locke, I'm a writer of gay fantasy romance and erotica, and I look forward to sharing some of my writing with a new audience.

I've been attracted to boys for as long as I can remember. There have been a few girls that I had 'more than friends' feelings for, but considering that I've only had one boyfriend who lasted about a year, on and off, and I wasn't interested in going farther than second base with him, I'm beginning to think that I'm more attracted to the concept of romance and sex than the actual experiences. It's all I write about, but it's not on my to-do list, if that makes any sense. I guess I'm still trying to figure things out, but my sexuality, or lack thereof, doesn't bother me.

Mostly, I love it. I'm an Educational Assistant Substitute at an elementary school. I only work at the one small school, so I know nearly all the kids and faculty. It has a great family feel to it. Some days are bad, but mostly I enjoy it. Strangely enough, if I had to describe myself, I'd say I was a writer, and throw in the EAS as an afterthought. I love my job, especially because it leaves me a lot of time to write, but all things being equal, if I had to choose, I would be a writer.

Thanks TL The Writing Tiger!

Thanks Ieshwar! I'm so happy about being published, but it really sucked to have to take my stories down and to not be able to post any more. I'm an instant gratification kind of guy, and having to wait a year to see my book in print is driving me nuts, lol.

Personal & Other Relationships: That I'm being toyed with, that I'm going to invest more into the relationship than he does and that it's going to hurt when he leaves. So I hold back and leave him before he can leave me. I have major trust issues. I blame my mother The World: Heights: I don't mind being up high, but I cannot climb a ladder to save my life, not even a step-stool to get something out of a high cupboard. I also have this irrational fear that everyone is judging me and that I'm going to make a fool of myself. I might have social anxiety disorder. Internet: Not really. Maybe identity theft, but I'm pretty careful.

Voted hurt and cry for both. I love books, songs and movies that can make me feel something. Brokeback Mountain made me hurt. It made me feel hollow. Diane Duane's books often make me cry. Like TL The Writing Tiger, the last Harry Potter got me. It made me sob and ache for hours after I'd finished it. Anne McCaffrey's Pern seris has its moments, as well as Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality. My own writing can occasionally do that to me. In the last book I wrote, I needed a certain scene to be painful and raw, so I found a song that made me hurt and conveyed the futile desperation I wanted my character to feel, and then I listenend to it over and over while I wrote. It hurt and I cried, but it's one of the most powerful scenes I've ever written.

Thanks Graeme!

Hello. I actually joined a while back to post one of my stories, but I never got around to coming into the forums and introducing myself. I'm Edward and I write homoerotic fantasy romance novels. The story I posted, which I unfortunately had to remove so that I could polish it up for publishing, was called Once A Slave .... It's now being published by PD Publishing under the much improved title of Magebound. Anyway, just thought it was about time I said Hi!